[R] how to set column width of terminal output?

[Michael Olberg]

Hi,

I am new to this list and my question may be trivial, I did however not 
find an answer to it using the help.search or RSiteSearch features of R. 
This is my question:

R seems to break lines of terminal output at a column which is 
independent of how wide I have made my terminal. I would have expected R 
to honor the COLUMNS environment variable, but that seems not to be the 
case. So is there an R internal variable I have to configure, something 
like the fill-column of emacs?

If my terminal is wide enough to show a wide table, I want to be able to 
print it like that and not have R print a first set of columns followed 
by a second set.

thanks,
Michael

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